There is an endless supply of articles and resources on ICD-10. Everything from training your staff, to making sure your vendors are ready, to assessing your practice readiness. But, with only 37 days remaining before transition, we wanted to shift the discussion to – What happens after ICD-10?

The 10 year ONC Healthcare Interoperability Roadmap had generated a lot of buzz. It proposes critical actions for both public and private stakeholders that, the ONC believes, will advance the nation towards an interoperable health IT ecosystem, advance research and ultimately achieve a learning health. If you are like most busy practices, you might not have time to read the 166 page Roadmap.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services updated its clarifying questions and answers regarding the degree of coding flexibility that will be permitted during the first year of ICD-10 implementation.

The revisions, made July 31, were to the two questions focused on explanations for a valid ICD-10 code and definition of an ICD-10 family.